But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
India's agrarian system is based on large wealthy landholders and unlanded peasants, formerly of the lower caste, who are alienated from the current economic structure.
It's the kind of Oliver Twistian advice given frequently to blacks deemed middle class: be grateful for the gruel because children are starving in the inner cities.
Tou Ching-lin, head of the Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh Railroad Bureau, came to see me. He told me that the task of changing the gauge of the rails of the track north of Harbin by the Russians began on September 3 and was completed on October 9. On October 12 a train from Moscow arrived in Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh. A representative of the communications commission of the Soviet government came to Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh to deliver a lecture to personnel of the Railroad Bureau. He first asked whether the staff of the Railroad Bureau understood the spirit of the Sino-Soviet agreement. He then said that if within 30 years China could manage the railroads in Manchuria by itself, control could be returned to the Chinese.
